Monday 30 December 2013

Quit smoking on Mondays, not New Year's, experts say

Quit smoking on Mondays, not New Year's, experts say If you're like millions of people around the globe, quitting smoking tops your New Year's resolution list. Earlier this year, US researchers monitored Google search queries about quitting smoking over the past five years in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, finding that search volumes peaked on Monday, almost every week, in all languages. Researchers from San Diego State University, the Santa Fe Institute, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Monday Campaigns -- a nonprofit public health initiative that dedicates the first day of every week to health -- published their findings in October the Journal of the American Medical Association. "On New Year's Day, interest in smoking cessation doubles," said the study's lead author, John Ayers of San Diego State University in a statement released Friday.




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